1675 in England

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1675 in England:

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Events from the year 1675 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.

[edit] Events

• 10 August - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in London.

[edit] Births

• 29 May - Humphry Ditton, mathematician (d. 1715)
• 2 September - William Somervile, poet (d. 1742)
• 11 October - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (d. 1729)
• 24 October - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, soldier and politician (d. 1749)
• Edmund Curll, bookseller and publisher (d. 1757)

[edit] Deaths

• 28 July - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer (b. 1605)
• 28 November - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (b. c 1608)
• 6 December - John Lightfoot, churchman and scholar (b. 1602)